Famous people are like unicorns around here: I’d have to make one up. Besides, I like famous people best when I know nothing about them. Call it the Elvis Effect.
TACTICAL AGING: WHAT TO LEAVE OUT
Tactical aging comes with a certain age. Some call it the ‘whispering’ age. Others stick with ‘a certain age.’ Both mean the same thing:
TRAVEL MAGIC: RIGHT SONG, RIGHT TIME
Travel magic starts with the right song. Too often we hear it later and think how good it would have been. It’s the right song after the fact, the song you’d choose in a do-over of where you’ve been. But when it hits right, you know it.
GUITAR SEARCH NEVER ENDS, BUT IF IT DID …
Every guitar search starts in the same place: sound. How does it sound the first time played? In different rooms? What’s it sound like when you thump the flat top? What does it feel like in your hands from fret to pick? Look until you can’t look anymore, or just get the same guitar Bruce […]
MUSIC MUSEUM WILD MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
What came before bagpipes in music museum? Is it the ‘goat pipe?’ Maybe the ‘dog pipe?’ Which ever it was, I didn’t get to hear how they sounded. The Musical Instrument Museum in Scottsdale AZ isn’t for the timid. Music minded people throughout the ages learned to improvise. Like Elvis singing Jailhouse Rock where inmates […]
Portland Welcome Mat: How To Walk Around Downtown Portland
One of the great things about sponsoring foreign exchange students after your own kids have been out of college for years is rolling out the welcome mat. The Portland welcome mat. And dragging everyone possible along the Portland Trail. My wagon train always starts with Saturday Market and the sort of […]
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: NO NOBEL LIKE A NEW JERSEY NOBEL
Bruce Springsteen a future Nobel Laureate? If Bob Dylan wins a Nobel Prize for Literature, why wouldn’t the man once called ‘The Next Bob Dylan?’ Along with lyrics that dare challenge the scope of epic rock and rollers of the past, Gilgamesh, Homer, Virgil, Ovid, The Boss and his body of work stand […]
AARP POINTS THEIR MONEY FINGER
Do you really expect celebrities to invest wisely? What’s easier, shooting fish in a barrel or making fun of famous people losing their money? If most of us live lives of quiet desperation, the media turns up the sound for the loud ones. And nothing gets louder than rich-man failure in America. Show business people losing […]